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From: Henry_Burdett_Messenger@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: unix on the TT
Message-ID: <23813@cup.portal.com>
Date: 9 Nov 89 01:55:31 GMT
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Richard Covert writes:

> Ken, I have made this comment on GEnie, but briefly I think that the
> TT could be a killer machine if two things are done:

> 1) It must be an OPEN system with plenty of card slots for third party vendor
>    addons. This is really an important feature for an expensive workstation
>    class machine.

	Why?

	DEC and Sun have a serious lock on this market, and they both
	sell *lots* of workstations without any busses at all.

> 2) It must have AT&T System V Release 4.0 UNIX with X Windows. AT&T has
>    publicly announced binary compatibility between all Sys V Rel 4 UNIX
>    on the same cpu. So, with X Windows you have a common platform to develop
>    applications for many different machines. This means that the TT Tower
>    could run programs from Sun or maybe even Apple.

	It's 1989 and UN*X still sucks. Maybe someday it will grow up
	and become a real operating system. When it gets a distributed
	lock manager and indexed files and asynchronous system traps and...

	I'm not interested in an OS that was designed as a word processing
	system for secretaries in the Dark Ages of Computing.

> I have heard rumors that Atari is going to buy some strange non-AT&T UNIX
> type OS w/o X Windows.

	The X Window System (_not_ "X Windows", there is no such thing) will
	run under MANY OSs. It is not, by any means, limited to UN*X. It 
	runs perfectly well under God's Own Operating System, VMS.

> Especially if the TT/Tower is cheaper
> then a Sun or an Apple Mac A/UX system. 

	Well, when THEY can get cheaper than a DECstation 3100, please
	let me know. And I guarantee you that MIPS processor will eat
	the Sun's lunch, let alone a Macintosh...
				- hbm
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